Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Want to know the best Alfred Hitchcock movies?  How about the worst Alfred Hitchcock movies?  Curious about Alfred Hitchcock’s box office grosses or which Alfred Hitchcock movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Alfred Hitchcock movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) directed well over 50 films in his six decade career. Hitchcock directed his first 26 movies in England from 1922 to 1939. He directed his last 30 movies in the United States from 1940 till 1976. Some of his early successes in England were 1926’s The Lodger, 1929’s Blackmail (considered to be the first movie from England with sound), 1934’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1935’s The 39-Steps and 1938’s The Lady Vanishes.

Legendary producer David O. Selznick signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when the Hitchcock family moved to the United States. Talk about getting off to a good start, Hitchcock’s first Hollywood movie was 1940’s Rebecca. Rebecca would be a smash hit, earned 11 Oscar® nominations, including Hitchcock’s first ever nomination for Best Director and won the Oscar® for Best Picture of the year. The 1940s produced the classic Hitchcock movies Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound and Notorious. The 1950s were the peak years for Hitchcock…with movies like Strangers on a Train, To Catch A Thief, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Dial M for Murder.

This page will only be ranking Alfred Hitchcock’s Hollywood movies….not because I have anything against England…..other than they kept very poor box office records in the 1930s.  Alfred Hitchcock movies are ranked in five sortable columns of information in the following table.

James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954).
James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).

Alfred Hitchcock Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Alfred Hitchcock Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort by the star of the Alfred Hitchcock movie
  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by yearly box office ranking
  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by critic reviews and audiences voting.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Alfred Hitchcock movie received.
  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Alfred Hitchcock Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Possibly Interesting Facts About Alfred Hitchcock

1.  Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England.

2.  Alfred Hitchcock’s opinion about actors….”I never said all actors are: what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle”.

3.  Alfred Hitchcock love to have MacGuffins in his movies.  MacGuffins are basically decoys…they get the audience to think something is important and by the end of the movie the audience realizes they were not really important at all.

4.  Alfred Hitchcock was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar®…but he never won…he was nominated for Rebecca, Spellbound, Lifeboat, Psycho and Rear Window.

5.  Alfred Hitchcock made 4 movies with James Stewart and Cary Grant. The Stewart 4….Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window and Vertigo.  The Grant 4….Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch A Thief and North by Northwest.

6.  Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite actress was Grace Kelly…..they made three movies together…..Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief and Rear Window…..Hitchcock kept hoping Kelly would return to movies….but she never did.

7.  Alfred Hitchcock has been described as the most influential filmmaker of all time.

8.  Alfred Hitchcock wanted to call North by Northwest….”The Man on Lincoln’s Nose”….he was overruled….but he sneak a Shakespeare reference into the title.

9.  Alfred Hitchcock was given an honorary Oscar®….the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968.

10.  Alfred Hitchcock was famous for his cameo appearances in almost all of his movies….for a great movie page on his cameos check out Film Historian Steve Lensman’s Hitchcock’s Cameos which also includes a video of the Hitchcock cameos.

Steve Lensman’s Alfred Hitchcock Expanded You Tube Video

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  1. HITCHCOCK!!! THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE!!! I have seen 22 Hitchcock movies. The highest rated movie I have seen is REBECCA. The lowest rated movie I have seen is UNDER CAPRICORN. The highest ranked movie I haven’t seen is FORIEGN CORRESPONDENT. Most of the Hitchcock films I have seen are American although I have seen some of his British films as well. Favorites include THE 39 STEPS, THE LADY VANISHES, REBECCA , SHADOW OF A DOUBT, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, REAR WINDOW, DIAL M FOR MURDER, TO CATCH A THIEF, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956), VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, and NOTORIOUS. Other Alfred Hitchcock movies I have seen include SUSPICION, MR. AND MRS. SMITH, LIFEBOAT, PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, SPELLBOUND, I CONFESS, TORN CURTAIN, ROPE, and UNDER CAPRICORN. REAR WINDOW is my favorite Hitchcock movie. No Ifs, Ands, or Buts About it, Alfred Hitchcock DESERVED the Best Director Oscar for REAR WINDOW in 1954. Enough Said!!!

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    1. Hey Greg. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock. 22 is a very good total….but it trails big Hitch fans like Steve and Flora. Seems I am always in a rotation of watching Hitchcock movies. Recently WoC and myself watched Rear Window (she had never seen it)….that now has me motivated to watch the Hitch classics again. Lots of Hitch favorites…that will make our Hitch fans happy to see. Of your favorites…I am right there with you on Dial M For Murder, Rear Window, Notorious, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train and To Catch A Thief. I like Vertigo….but do not love it. Looking at your others list….Under Capricorn, Spellbound and Mr. and Mrs. Smith would be near the bottom of my personal Hitch rankings. And finally….you have no arguments from me about Hitch deserving an Oscar for Rear Window. Good stuff!

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